The goal is to turn all of the blue cells on the board by making matches on them. When I say addicting I'm not kidding because everyone I've convinced to play, spend hours playing this game so proceed with caution. I have purchased every game in this series as soon as they are released and the original game is by far the most challenging and most addicting game.
It's perfectly playable, but hard to recommend to anyone who has played these types of games before.Cradle of Rome I have played hundreds of match 3 games and none of them can hold a Roman Candle to the Cradle of Rome series. Eventually you'll unlock power-ups like a hammer that can destroy any tile on the field. You're also under a time limit, represented by a vase of water slowly emptying on the top screen. Pesky obstacles will get in your way, like "locked" gems that can't be switched until you make a match and unlock them. Like Jewel Quest, another Bejewelled clone, your goal during a round is to make matches on blue tiles, clearing them from the screen. It feels like Cradle of Rome could have gone a lot farther with the cradling. It's an OK concept, but there isn't really any depth. In between rounds these can be spent on farms, taverns, and other buildings in order to cultivate your commonwealth. As you create matches you build up reserves of resources like grains and wood. Most efforts alter the mechanic ever so slightly, and here we are supposedly building the Roman Empire. These sorts of games involve flipping jewels on a playing field so as to create matches of at least three of the same type. Cradle of Rome is a decent puzzler with a budget price tag, but you've played this game before. But with several solid games of this type already available on the handheld, one has to wonder why D3 Publisher felt compelled to release another, which is actually a port of a year-old PC title. Just how many match-three clones does one system need? The portable, touch screen-enabled Nintendo DS is a very attractive platform for puzzle games - Bejewelled-style match-threes in particular.
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